On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 21:19 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Your system is passing an opaque string. How should a GUI support that?
> Or anything but a command line tool?
I'm pretty sure he didn't intend to replace current options with the
string. A fullblown GUI probably wouldn't use it. The use would be to
allow programs that have only a minimal amount of FFmpeg-specific code
to still expose the FFmpeg options to the user.
> How and where is this string parsed?
In FFmpeg. His goal is to expose most options to the user even if the
application does nothing more than pass a simple string to FFmpeg.